Category Archives: Hong Kong Democracy

China NPC meeting could be writing on the wall for democracy in Hong Kong

By Cormac McCartan Aug 21, 2014 1:44PM UTC

Hong Kong China Tension

People fill in a street during a march at an annual pro-democracy protest in downtown Hong Kong on July 1. Pic: AP. Continue reading

‘Terrified’ Founder Decides to Shutter Hong Kong Pro-Democracy News Site ‘House News’

Posted 27 July 2014 21:09 GMT
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Screen Capture of the House News’ Facebook Page. The site had more than 230 thousand Facebook followers before it shut down. Continue reading

HK’s House News Closes Citing Political Pressure

July 27, 2014 5:55 PM

Posted By: josh rudolph

Hong Kong pro-democracy website, blog, and news aggregator House News (主場新聞) has shut down due to a Continue reading

Bloggers reboot democracy site

Kenneth Lau

Monday, July 28, 2014

A group of bloggers has set up a Facebook page for people’s commentaries on politics and other issues following the sudden closure of House News, a pro-democracy news site with strong ties to media Continue reading

Hong Kong Rising: An Interview with Albert Ho

Perry Link, with Ian Johnson

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A sit-in for democratic rights in Hong Kong’s central district, July 1, 2014

The former British colony of Hong Kong reverted to China on July 1, 1997, and on every July 1 since Continue reading

Beijing’s Weibo ban hits close to home-Suspension of accounts after the July 1 protest a worrying sign of threat to innovation, freedom

 

By George Chen
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An average of 70 out of every 10,000 Weibo posts made on July 1 were quickly deleted, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters

Hong Kong is apparently becoming the next Tibet or Xinjiang Continue reading

After Relative Silence on Hong Kong Protests, Mainland Media Outlets Note Arrests

By AUSTIN RAMZY JULY 3, 2014 3:08 AM July 3, 2014 10:46 pm


The police removed demonstrators on Wednesday morning from a sit-in that followed Hong Kong’s pro-democracy march.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press
After a day of largely ignoring the big turnout for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Continue reading

In Hong Kong, a Potent Visual Echo of Tiananmen

By MICHAEL FORSYTHE JULY 2, 2014 2:51 AMJuly 2, 2014 5:45 am


Marchers carried a scaled-down replica of the Goddess of Democracy, an icon of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstration Tuesday.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press

Cecilia Ng was born seven years after the Goddess of Democracy statue in Tiananmen Square was Continue reading